Background, Historical Perspective and Current Discussions

Historical Overviews and Futures Studies

• Future Urban Transportation Systems report by the Stanford Research Institute, 1968
• The State of Urban Transportation, by J. Edward Anderson, 1970
• Tomorrow's Transportation: New Systems for the Urban Future, report to Congress, 1968
• The Federal Role in the Development of Automated Peoplemovers in the 1970's: Some Historical Recollections, by Charles Broxmeyer, 1990
• Brief history of the UMTA Downtown People Mover (DPM) program, initiated in 1976
• Brief history of the UMTA Advanced Group Rapid Transit program
• Reflections on the Federal New Systems Study Project , by H. Wm. Merritt, April, 1993
• Project METRAN (Metropolitan Transportation): An Integrated, Evolutionary Transportation System for Urban Areas, by a group of M.I.T faculty and students, 1968
• The Structure of Transportation Revolutions, by Daniel Sweeny, January, 2005 
• Complete listing of Books and Published Papers on PRT by J. Edward Anderson, 1953-2006, copies available from him, upon request.

Dualmode Transport (DM)

• Analysis of Urban Dualmode Transportation, by Peter Benjamin, written in 1973

• Dualmode, by Professor Dwight Baumann, 1970

• National Conference on Dualmode Transportation, 1974

• Dualmode Debate page offers a variety of views regarding a wide range of dualmode issues

• Description of Dualmode Transportation Study being conduced by CEETI, at Texas A&M University, 2006-2007

• The Revolutionary Dualmode Transportation System, by Francis D. Reynolds, e-book, 22 chapters, 2006

 

Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) or Personal Automated Transit (PAT)

• Automated Guideway Transit: An Assessment of PRT and Other New Systems, 1975
• Innovation and Public Policy: The Case of PRT , 1979, by Catherine G. Burke
• Fundamentals of Personal Rapid Transit , 1978, by Jack Irving, et al,
• Lessons from the History of PRT , by J. Edward Anderson, August, 1996
• Information about the content and availability of the 1988-89 technology assessment of Personal Rapid Transit (PRT), conducted by the Advanced Transit Association
• PRT 2000 Status Report by Peter Samuel, November, 1996
• Photos Taken at the PRT 2000 Test Facility

 

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